Real
Earnings in January 2015, BLS February 26,
2015"Real average hourly earnings for all
employees rose 1.2 percent from December to January, seasonally adjusted, the. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This result stems from a 0.5 percent increase in average hourly earnings combined with a 0.7 percent decrease in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U).

Real average weekly earnings increased by 1.2 percent over the month due to the increase in real average hourly earnings combined with no change in the average workweek.

Real average hourly earnings increased by 2.4 percent, seasonally adjusted, from January 2014 to January 2015.
This increase in real average hourly earnings, combined with a 0.6 percent increase in the average workweek, resulted in a 3.0 percent increase
in real average weekly earnings over this period." [emphasis
added-jz]

Usual
Weekly Earnings of Wage and Salary Workers Fourth Quarter 2014 BLS, January
21, 2015 "Median weekly earnings of the nation's
107.4 million full-time wage and salary workers
were $799 in the fourth quarter of 2014 (not seasonally
adjusted). This was 1.7 percent higher than a year earlier,
compared with a gain of 1.2 percent in the Consumer Price Index
for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) over the same period." [emphasis
added-jz]